Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

[Zeerak Waseem]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:04:38 +0100, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 02/11/2010 01:35 PM, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
>
>> It just seems silly that if you want to use the newest version of kate,
>> kmail etc.
>  > that semantic-desktop is forced upon you, when you're not interested
> in having the
>  > entire DE.
>
> By the authority vested in me by My-Wife-the-Windows-User, I welcome you
> to
> the gentoo-users mail list. (I don't recall your name from previous
> months,
> but, nevermind.)
>
> I see that you've taken some heat in return for your opinions, but you've
> maintained a very civil and polite tone to your replies, and I admire you
> for that.
>

Why thank you :-)

> On the other hand, may I politely suggest that, if you wish to use the
> latest
> version of kate (or any other software including software from M$) you
> must
> necessarily accept the decisions of the author of that software.  How
> could
> it possibly be otherwise?
>

Well it can't be otherwise, however I do enjoy complaining, well about  
certain things anyway. Personally I installed kde, and realized I had no  
idea what on earth was on my computer and why, so I removed it and moved  
to openbox, and don't use any kde specific apps.
But I do find it silly, that the various applications that aren't  
dependent of the DE, to require a dependency of the DE. It just seems a  
bit backwards to me :-) I simply don't understand.

> The Ultimate Solution is to develop your own software, of course, and be
> the next M$/Google/Whoever.
>
> Hey, I'm still working on it -- I'll get there, do-or-die!
>
>

I just started a degree, to accomplish -something akin to- that ;-)


-- 
Zeerak